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Even the beancounters should support health and environmental regulations:

"These claims are political fodder, they are provocative, and they are always wrong. In fact, the evidence shows the opposite: environmental regulations consistently produce enormous net benefits to the economy and to human health. In 2008, for example, the United States' environmental technologies and services industry supported 1.7 million jobs. The industry at that time generated approximately $300 billion in revenues and exported goods and services worth $44 billion."

(Much more at the entire HuffPost article. Thanks, Ruth, for your concise presentation of the main point!)